Synopsis

He had joined the privateers, but a longing for solid ground persisted within him. Using the forged papers of a deceased soldier, he disembarked at Boulogne and enlisted. It was a bitter discovery, arriving too late to learn the truth: the man whose identity he’d assumed belonged to the Olympians, a clandestine royalist society. Refusing to commit an act of treachery against them, Vidocq found himself marked for danger. Aware that the postal service would betray his correspondence, he penned a